huge homes in a neighborhood that got flooded last night. more than 190 firefighters were called to the fire in queens. they had to use boats to rescue people. in one apartment they say 25 people were trapped while the two-story home next door was burning and setting fire to their roof. in the meantime, a developing impact from sandy in our area, a leak at a water plant in maryland is sending about 2 million gallons of raw sewage rushing out every hour. this is all happening at the little pautuxent reclaimation plant in howard county. sky fox is over that scene right now. the overflow was caused by a power outage. bg and e has made the plant a top priority to get back online. there are no mandatory evacuations at this time. residents are asked to avoid the little pautuxent river, south of route 32. in the meantime, hundreds of thousands of people in d.c., maryland and virginia are waking up in the dark this

morning following sandy's arrival. here are the current numbers, dominion reports more than 103,000 customer out in northern virginia, about 21,000 pepco customers are without power, that number is down. bg and e has around 82,000 outages in montgomery, prince georges, howard and dutchess counties. novec, potomac edison and smeco, is that what people call it? are there is experiencing significant outages. if you are headed out today, a reminder that metro is closed again this morning. that includes metro rail, metro bus and metro access. we should find out today when it will reopen. federal government offices are closed again today, so are most local government offices and schools. a complete list of closings is at the top of your screen. well, the superstorm is not just bringing strong winds and heavy rain, west virginia is getting hit with snow and a lot of it. a blizzard warning is in effect for at least 14 counties. the state's highest elevations

could get as much as three feet of snow. a state of emergency has been declared. earlier this morning we spoke with jim weiss with the office of emergency management in randolph county, west virginia. >> we don't have any power in the entire county, road crews are out working. we got a significant amount of snowfall, especially in the higher elevations, and we're talking well over a foot, maybe closer to two feet of snow. travel is almost nonexistent other than the snow plows. >> the snow ibeing blamed for at least one deadly traffic accident. there's also flooding being reported in some areas. man, with this, tucker barps is here. a little bit of everything with this storm. >> yeah, of course, the hybrid nature of the storm we've been talking about, so you get the winter weather out to the west and tropical stuff that went on along the coastlines last night. so the good news is things are winding down. the bad news is we've still got a day of rain and occasionally gusty winds. so winds will get up maybe 40

to 50 miles an hour from time to time during the course of the day. and, of course, with very saturated soil, some trees still could be at risk. so be careful out there later today. there is your radar, rain falling, continuing to fall across the area, been falling all night long. last night many areas picked up five inches of rain. we had all kinds of rain records for the day yesterday. and the rain will continue to fall for much of your day today. i think as we get into the afternoon hours we'll start to see things wind down here a little bit later. but you can see we've got rain south and east of the city here, southeast side there down towards andrews air force base and then north and west up to sunny gates as we're getting some pretty good rains. it's been with us all morning long here. we continue to be under a risk for flooding. we have a warning here we'll show you in just a second. i want to show you the big picture, show you the spin. just incredible. now, of course, the center of what was sandy, no longer with us, but if it were, it would be right about here. again, you can see that wide circulation still drawing moisture in off the atlantic,

just an incredible spin. look how much of the country is being impacted by this storm at this hour, all the way out to chicago, cleveland, down into the carolinas, up into northern new england, still dealing with rain and wind associated with sandy. and we're very close to the center. so we're going to be in for plenty of rain showers during the day today and the potential that you could even see a few snowflakes if you're out to the west. so look out for that possibility as temperatures outside are very cool at this hour. let me show you the flood warning, and once again here, in effect until 10:30 this morning. got a couple issues with the flooding. some of the urban areas, including roadways dealing with some localized flooding. the creeks and rivers are starting to outflow -- flow out their banks and so they deal with that. then we'll have some tidal flooding later today and tonight with the next cycle of high tides. our winds yesterday were out of the north and west, pushing the water out of the bay and down into the potomac. today the winds have shifted out of the south and southwest and that's going to push the water back up, so we're concerned with tidal floodings

in places -- flooding in places like annapolis and old bay as we deal with high tide. so we're not quite done with some of the issues associated with sandy. current wind gust 26 here in washington, 21 in annapolis, 30 in hagerstown. again, the wind will occasionally gust 40 maybe over 50 here at times today for parts of the day. here are your forecast high temperatures, going to be very cold out there, 47 with wind, 43 in annapolis, 40 out at dulles. so, again, temperatures going to be very chilly here later this afternoon. bring along a jacket as you head out. all right, tony, that's the latest on weather. we'll give you an update in just a minute. back to you at the desk. >> tucker, thank you very much. just getting some information, some good news out to our east, the bay bridge has reopened, the bay bridge is now reopened. no longer under those wind restrictions. all the rain that saturated the ground is making it easy for trees to topple over and the high winds did just that. some homes in our area have major damage from trees having fallen on them. our own melanie aldwick is live

in laurel where a tree fell on a house. good morning, melanie. >>reporter: good morning, tony. we've been going around this neighborhood this morning. it hasn't been too tough to find that sort of situation. take a look right here, a new location for us this morning, but still a similar situation. we are here on 11th street. take a look at this tree trunk. not really the kind of thing you want to see out your bedroom window when you're waking up the morning after a storm for sure. now, this was reported in the evening hours, around 6:00, 7:00, around the height of the storm. not any significant damage here, but still enough to cause some problems for the homeowners in this neighborhood. but in some cases that we saw around the area, there was major damage. let's talk about a house on conti road. that one made uninhabitable after a huge tree crashed down on the roof. it caused major structural damage. the good news is no one got hurt, but they did have to leave their home for the near future. again, as we were around this morning, we weren't too far away down on seventh and main

streets just in front of the historic section of laurel, and there you had a very large tree that was sort of split in the middle with part of it hanging precariously over power lines and poles, and there's the possibility that might also come down as tucker was talking about when the winds start to pick up a little bit. so they're trying to get some crews out to take care of that on their own before it takes those other things down with it. there was also major roof damage to a house we saw early this morning over on red miles road in west laurel and also damage, structural damage to a house on gerald road. again, as we get up this morning and the sunlight comes up, we're seeing some people walking around and taking a look. so sporadic damage here and there. there are some tree limbs that came down on top of cars, apartment buildings in parts of prince george's county. again, tough situation if that is your car, but the good news is in all of these circumstances, tony and allison, that nobody was injured. they are asking people in the area, we know you want to get

out of your houses, we know you want to drive around, but please be very, very careful if you do so this morning because in addition to limbs that are on the streets, there is also lots of debris, lots of leaves it, can be very slippery out here. so if you do have to get out, please be very, very careful. tony and allison. >> thanks, melanie. and now to some damage in the d.c. area. this is video of a fallen tree into an apartment complex at the 2400 block of good hope road in southeast. now, no injuries reported, but several families were forced to stay the night in a shelter because of the damage. sandy blew through annapolis yesterday afternoon as a superstorm, bringing heavy rains, high winds to the maryland capital. a lot of store owners prepared with sandbags, but the harbor did not flood. the wind pushed the water away from annapolis and even at high tide last night, the docks were not under water. sandy barreled on down the

delmarva coast yesterday. we know that, bringing with it heavy wind, highmark wind heavy rain and flooding. >> the effects of the monster storm are still being felt today. lauren demarco is live in ocean city now with the latest. lauren, still raining on you? >>reporter: still raining pretty light, but we are still seeing those whipping winds, definitely feeling the remnants in the wake of the superstorm sandy. the ocean also starting to rage, starting to pick up. it's high tide right now, about 9:00 p.m. when it began -- 9:00 a.m., pardon me. so we're starting so tee -- to see these waves roll in. the good news is there is still several feet of sand still between the edge of the seawall and the ocean there, so not any flooding concern at this time or no longer a concern. we have some good news about the folks that remain in the downtown area where the power had been preemptively shut off, that has now been restored, so

the power back on. it's very cold, so likely warming up there anybody who did remain in their homes. now, the pier, the fishing pier, we know took some severe damage. a good chunk of it at the end there destroyed. we also know that fager's island restaurant, there's a pier off of that with a landmark gazebo, that gazebo is gone, unfortunately. there's also plenty of flooding damage. the downtown area remains shut down, you cannot travel on the roads between 62nd street and the inlet. they're going to reassess things. crews are out, kind of getting a feel for the damage, deciding when they can let folks back into their homes, but there was significant flooding, several feet of water in homes and on the roads down there. when we drove through this morning, it looked like most of the waters had receded so that it was just several inches at this point. but there again there are crews out there looking at the

damage. the u.s. coast guard has restricted the bay, so boats cannot access the bay at this point and they are working to see when they'll lift that restriction. route 50 remains closed heading into town. the road 90 bridge has been reopened. so other than that, just sort of assessing the damage right now, trying to find out when folks can return to their homes, cleanup will begin. very heavy winds, again, the rain is light, but it's chilly, and that's the latest here in ocean city. back to you guys, tony and allison. >> thank you very much, lauren demarco reporting. well, north of ocean city, fox' doug luzader watched sandy slam into rewhoboth beach. >> he joins us live with a look at the conditions there. good morning, doug, how's it going this morning? >>reporter: well, not exactly drenched and not really all that windy at the moment. it's certainly a lot better than we've seen. and you see cleanup vehicles out here, some people are kind

of going about their business. that's good news. the one sure sign i guess that the hurricane is over, take a look out there, there are actually surfers in the water here as they take advantage of what still remains to be some pretty big waves here. obviously not the kind of wave action we saw yesterday and not the kind of tidal surge that we saw yesterday. all in all it seems like this part of delaware did okay. we'll have to see as the sun continues to rise and we spend some more time out on the streets to see if in fact things are getting back to normal. but it's a much different story when you head farther to the north, atlantic city and then, of course, new york city dealing with that 13-foot tidal surge. i mean, that's going to be an issue for them, that's going to be a massive cleanup for some time yet to come. >> doug luzader reporting for us from rehoboth. dry out those clothes, man. thank you very much for all the reports. we appreciate it. dozens of homes destroyed in a raging fire in queens, new york. we'll have an update. and closer to home, a tree falls on a home and a car.

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a little head up for commuters this morning. amtrak canceled all service in the northeast for a second straight day due to sandy. this includes the region between boston and raleigh, north carolina and between the east coast and chicago, new orleans and florida. no decision has been made on when that service will be resumed. well, the damage from sandy is still being assessed. g we are getting a number of reports of trees down on homes, and fox 5's holly morris is in annandale now with a report. she's been following a really bad situation there where you are. holly, good morning. >>reporter: good morning to you. really the harsh reality of hurricane sandy and the power of what she did in our area

unveiling itself right before our very eyes as we're live on gallows road. there's a house here where a tree -- a massive tree fell over onto a car and onto the house. the family just arriving here this morning as the sun comes up to start to deal with the massive cleanup. you can only imagine what they're thinking right now in terms of all that they need to face. of course this is just one example of a lot of things that are going on in and around the fairfax county area. and marijuanay fitzgerald, the director of fairfax county joins me on the phone. good morning. >> good morning. >>reporter: give us an update on how fairfax county fared through last night's storm. >> well, our thoughts and prayers go out to everybody in that family and others. we have had an impact of sandy, about 90 roads are closed at this point. we still have about 100 traffic signals that are out, about 60,000 power outages here in

fairfax county. unfortunately, as of our overnight reports, more than 53 trees fell into homes similar to what you're looking at there. we also have 42 power lines that are down, so safety is our message today. everybody needs safe. the trees are very unstable at this point because the ground is very wet and the rain continues and will continue. now, we haven't heard about any loss of life or big injuries which is good news. however, there has been property damage. even some of our own county facilities are without power or are on generator power. so we have a safety message for everybody, be careful when you're driving. there's still some water on the road. turn around, don't drown. be careful of hydroplaning and be careful of wet leaves that could hinder your ability to stop your vehicle or even could be treacherous if you're walking. so right now people are looking at what happened during the

night, but today safety is just as important as it was when sandy was here. >>reporter: merni, i wanted to ask you real quickly, is this the situation in terms of the cleanup, the power that could be restored immediately, you know, the trees that could be immediately removed that happened relatively quickly has all been done, but now we're dealing with situations such as this where it may take several days for things to get back to normal? >> yes. and, in fact, because also because of all of the marine water that has gone into the potomac, even the situation with flooding could still be something we're monitoring for days ahead of us. so at this point we are all in an assessment mode. we're not even quite into the recovery mode because things continue. so for individuals looking at their own property, everybody should be very, very careful, the trees are still unstable and could still be going down. so safety is the name of what we should be paying attention to today and into the weeks to

come. >>reporter: merni, thank you very much, we appreciate you givings your time this morning, merni fitzgerald, the director of public affairs for fairfax county. as we're watching this situation this morning, i just kind of want to give you an update from where i was yesterday. if you were watching our coverage, we were live in annapolis. we interviewed a guy named russ levi early in the morning. he sent us this picture this morning. this is exactly where we were standing yesterday morning as the storm was coming in. it wasn't flooded at the time. as you can see this was at 7:30 this morning, the city dock had some dig water in it. he said, actually, it was up to like the second floor of his -- the stairs leading up to his apartment which is just above the starbucks there. so they're dealing with flooding there in some areas of annapolis as well. back to you all in the studio. >> holly, thank you. well, a woman who was among the crew of a ship stranded off north carolina has died. the coast guard rescued 20 people from the hms bounty off cape hatteras yesterday, but they are still looking for the

captain. they did pull the body of a 42- year-old woman from the water, but she was not responsive and was later pronounced dead at a hospital. the search for the captain continues. sandy is the worst storm to hit the biggest city in the u.s. in recorded history. battery park in lower manhattan is flooded and sea water damaged subway lines under the east river. there is no electricity south of 39th street. in midtown a dangerous construction crane dangled menacingly and forced people nearby to evacuate. and for the first time since 1888, the new york stock exchange is closed for a second day in a row due to weather. several hospitals are working on backup generators and were evacuating patients overnight, from washington to boston transportation systems and schools are shut down. more than 7000 flights are grounded and hundreds of thousands of people were ordered to move to higher ground. and at ground zero, look

at this photo, it's almost in its own odd way pretty. this is at ground zero in lower manhattan. the heavy rains made it look like several waterfalls. this is the construction site of the world trade center. amazing photo. in new york city, high winds from sandy, as we told you, caused a construction crane to collapse. it was atop a luxury high rise in manhattan when it collapsed and dangled 74 floors above the street. that's where it is still dangling. no injuries have been reported. officials there say wind gusts topped 95 miles per hour yesterday afternoon. they are going to have to figure out what to do about that. the storm made landfall not far from atlantic city, new jersey. and it washed away part of the famous atlantic city boardwalk. the governor closed the garden state parkway in both directions and there are 42 other road closures in 13 counties. the storm slammed the coastline with 85 mile an hour winds last night. sandy has also had a huge

impact north of new york. this is video of underage waves along the shore at new london, connecticut. some of her strongest winds were felt in rhode island, massachusetts and connecticut. hundreds of thousands have no power in those states. trivia question for you. >> yes. >> do you know what closed the new york stock exchange in 1888? >> a blizzard. >> i knew you would know that. >> yes, yes. thank you. good question, though. although no longer a hurricane, sandy is still packing a punch and forcing changes on the campaign trail. we've got details ahead. and gwen is keeping a close eye on the storm's path. gwen. >> the wind, the rain, the snow all still impacting our immediate area. i'm going to have an update on what's happening and what you can expect coming up after the break. stay with us. [ mitt romney ] we have to work on a collaborative basis.

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we want to mention something that has just come in

from metro. they are going to restore limited service of their metro bus and metro rail service at 2:00 p.m. today. they'll be on a sunday schedule, so metro will resume running at 2:00 today. this is buses and the rail system, but it will be on a sunday schedule for the remainder of the day. that starts at 2:00, then regular service begins again tomorrow. now we will hear from the governors of maryland and virginia today as well as the mayor of the district on their response to the storm. in just over one hour from now, maryland governor martin o'malley is scheduled to hold a press conference at the maryland emergency management agency. then just after noon, d.c. mayor vince gray will speak at a press briefing at the d.c. homeland security agency and governor mcdonnell will give his briefing at 1:00 this afternoon. maryland governor martin o'malley is canceling early voting again today, but he is extending early voting on friday. >> in d.c., the board of elections is also announcing that early voting will remain

closed today all because of sandy, of course. and with a week before election day, the candidates are both suspending their campaigns today. president barack obama is at the white house. he is monitoring the impact and response to the storm. aides for governor mitt romney say if anything that he will take part in some sort of relief effort. the federal government is shut down again today, but the labor department says friday's big jobs report will still be released on schedule. still ahead, water rushes into a train station in new jersey. we'll show you how it got in. first, though, lauren demarco has a look at damage in ocean city, maryland. lauren. >>reporter: well, whipping winds continue here in ocean city. in the meantime city officials beginning to assess the damage. we're going to have an update in the wake of superstorm sandy coming up next on fox 5 morning news. 

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news. we are bringing you live pictures from northwest washington. you see here a big tree toppled over. this is at wisconsin avenue and porter street. it's taken some power lines down with it. so you may be having power problems in that neighborhood. man, check out this dramatic scene. this is in silver spring. last night sandy was really pounding the area. i have a little bit more on this because these happen to be friends of mine, fred and e71 out in silver spring. fred wrote me and said this happened about 6:00, so the tree came down from the roots. it went all the way across to the other side. of course it landed on live wires and then it fell on the truck and in about 15 minutes the front end of that truck was just in flames. because of the live wires and all that, it took about an hour for the fire to be put out. that's too bad. >> wow! >> terrible. >> they're okay, no injuries. >> they're okay. they have kids and they're fine, but that's hard. that's hard to deal with. >> we're going to learn more

about all of this during the day today as people get back home and all that kind of thing and assess the damage. gwen is here now to tell us more about sandy. >> in the meantime, we're still getting the rain, we're still getting the strong winds out of the west and the blizzard-like conditions. let's show you just what sandy looks like right now as it's spinning its way up the mid- atlantic. we're going to be dealing with a look at our infrared satellite shot for you, if we could pull that up -- i'm sorry, okay. we've got some video of some snow to show you across parts of west virginia, and they have been getting hit pretty heavy in west virginia. some of these areas have seen up to 14 inches of snowfall, and we could see even more. the heaviest snowfall for parts of west virginia is going to be this evening, so definitely that area really dealing with a lot of problems. so here's a look at what i was going to talk about in terms of where sandy is right now. it's actually moving its way to the north, and you can see the wide swath of where it's affecting areas still with lots of precipitation as well as with lots of strong winds.

here's our fox 5 accuweather radar. we have a heavy pocket of rainfall to the north here, through gaithersburg as well as here to the east, but, still, we're seeing rainfall here that's pretty steady. we'll gradually see it start to taper off in the overnight hours. could see a bit lingering into the early part of wednesday morning, but just be aware. we're still under a flood warning for the morning hours through here. so definitely be careful driving into any low lying areas, bridges, underpasses as well. just be careful because you cannot estimate in low lying areas the actual depth of that water. here's a look at our winds, 61 mile per hour wind gusts is what we hit at d.c., 60 at bwi thoroughgood marshall and 64 at dulles. winds extremely strong. in annapolis they kicked in at 69, 76 in laytonsville and martinsburg. we still have a blizzard warning in effect for areas to the west. we just showed you the snow, six to 12 inches plus is what we're talking because the heaviest snowfall is going to come tonight. it's a wet, heavy snow.

looks like it'll be mixed with rain a little bit, but the problem is that the winds are gusting and expected to gust up to about 60 miles an hour. and that's creating the blizzard-like conditions that they're dealing with there. some of these snowfall totals, as you can see, 14 inches and a lot of snow through an entire area, and we don't want to hear about snow moving this way. gusts, 26 mile per hour wind gust right now at national airport, and temperatures now into the upper 30s and the low 40s. pretty chilly outside through the course of the day. the winds are going to stay gusty through wednesday. rain will taper off overnight. we're going to stay dry through thursday into the weekend and temperatures will stay below seasonal all week, so prepare for that. today's high a chilly 47 degrees. tony, allison. >> big difference. thank you. sandy pummeled the east coast, leaving a devastating path of destruction. >> high winds, heavy rain caused damage to buildings, flooded streets and hundreds of thousands are without power. fox 5's lauren demarco is live in ocean city, maryland this morning with the latest.

lauren. >>reporter: good morning, tony. the name sandy kind of fitting right now because we are getting whipped by all the sand, whipped up in the wind. we've got very strong wind gusts, and that really appears to be the only danger in the wake of the storm right now, the high tide has come in and the ocean line, the water's edge still a decent ways away from the seawall. so it looks like we're going to be okay, no more flooding here, no longer a risk. but, course, plenty of flooding yesterday and into the overnight hours. in fact, overnight we went out to check out some of the damage. at 54th street there is a restaurant called mackey's bayside bar and grill. the flood waters there almost up to my knees, so they are dealing with significant damage, that location has been closed. ocean city itself is closed to traffic between 62nd street and the inlet. we had some areas shut off as

far as power. that power grid has been restored. so everybody, there may be some spotty outages, but there is no longer any major grids of homes without electricity this morning which is good news because it is so cold. so crews are now wandering around town, they are assessing the damage, trying to decide when to open things back up. route 50 is still closed heading into town, but route 90 has been reopened. they're about to hold a press briefing around 10:00 a.m., so we're going to have the latest for you coming up later on fox 5 news this evening, so be sure to watch and to check on myfoxdc.com, we're letting folks know what the latest is here. but that's all we've got now from ocean city. back to you. >> that's plenty. thank you, lauren. what foods to keep and what foods to toss out if your power goes out. plus tips on filing an insurance claim. and sandy shut down most of the northeast. take a look at this. this is a look at water flooding a path train station

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high winds and relentless rains weren't enough to keep david letterman and jimmy fallon off the air. the late night talk show hosts were the only ones to follow through with tapings yesterday. last night's shows started with monologue jokes read to an empty audience. that would be very bizarre to see. letterman greeted guest densel washington who said he swam to the studio. jimmy also had a few guests, including seth meyers and the band imagine dragon. >> they still had guests. >> yeah, very strange. i'll make sure to go online and see it. it would be weird. speaking of seth meyers, he and other celebrities shared their thoughts of the storm op twitter. >> meyers wrote "every time i

go outside and see how bad sandy is, i see someone confidently walking a tiny dog." >> well, in new york you would see that. michelle tweeted, you know new york city is under a hurricane crisis when there's not a single cab on the road. that'll tell you. >> that is true. and bethany frankel said, wow, the hudson river is now on the streets of tribeca. >> and mindy of "the mindy project" wrote "nine months from now, hopefully we will have some cool hurricane sandy babies." i bet we will. >> that's cute. speaking of social media, we have received a lot of photos and videos from you, our viewers. >> take a look at this picture of an uprooted tree. this is in woodbridge, virginia. there are a lot of trees down in the area. coming up next dave ross is showing us what happened in your neighborhood. it's 9:42. we'll be right back. where others fail, droid powers through.

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we want to go back to one of our big stories this hour. it's a leak at a water treatment plant in howard county, maryland. it's sending about 2 million gallons of raw sewage rushing out every hour. now, sky fox remains over the scene. the spill is coming from the little pautuxent water reclaimation plant. joining us now is howard county executive ken hullman. what's the latest? >> i want to be clear there's no leak at the system. what's happening is there is a power outage, so there are multiple feeds that come into the building, to the complex, multiple power sources from bg and e. both of them are down, so when there's no power, the water can't be treated, so it goes right into the river. that's what's happening. it's an overflow situation that is really bypassing the treatment plant. there's nothing we can do it about it until bg and e restores power. we are very concerned about it. we just met with our health

officer and our public works folks. we're monitoring it right now. there does not appear to be a health concern at the moment, but we are still telling people in the area to please avoid any standing water in the area and obviously stay out of the pautuxent river. >> you say there's no health concern, but this is going into the river which i guess is flowing downstream. how can it not pose a health concern, at least at some point? >> i didn't say there was no health concern. i said our health officer was monitoring it. it appears right now because it is so diluted because of the amount of rain water that is mixing with the sewage that right now it appears to be at refusals that do not pose -- to be at levels that dot not pose a health risk. we are monitoring it in real time and are very, very interested and concerned about the levels. >> what is bg and e telling you? >> to be clear, we notified bg and e at 11:00 last night that both feeders were down.

they told us they sent an assessment team out this morning at about 6:30 or 7:00, so they say it's their number one priority. you know, i'm just not going to be satisfied until we have power back up at the plant. >> do you have any backup power there that would have, should have gone into effect? >> the backup power is multiple sources of power from bg and e coming into the complex. both of them went down. it's very rare that that happens. you know, i ordered a full audit after we get this back up and running of what happened and what can be done in the future to avoid the situation, but right now it's a tough situation. i know you've been showing aerial footage. not only do we have to get the power back on, but then we have to have our crews putting manhole covers back on that were kind of blasted out by the levels of flowing water. so tough situation. we'll get through it, but, you know, we're working hard, but really waiting on bg and e at the moment. >> what are you telling your

residents to do? >> we're telling the residents to stay out of the water. if you're in that area, please do not go into the water. you know, other than that, we're monitoring the situation and hopefully they'll be able to restore power soon. >> mr. ulman, one final question i want to get straight, so has the release of the river been going since 11:00 p.m.? >> yes. >> and are figures right, about 2 million gallons per hour? >> between 1 million and 2 million gallons per hour since 11:00 p.m. >> wow! okay. thank you for spending some time to talk with us this morning. >> keep us posted, please. >> sure. thanks for covering this. >> howard county executive ken ulman. this is a major story now, so this has been going on for quite some time. >> and this is what it is, tucker, it's the aftermath, and we'll say, okay, well, my house is okay. i personally have power, didn't lose it last night. so you're, like, okay, we're fine. we're not all fine. >> right. and, of course, the cleanup is going to be going on here for

days and weeks across the eastern seaboard, not just here, but millions without power to our north. >> so by those numbers, we're talking about 10 million to 20 million gallons of raw sewage. >> yeah. i feel like that can't be good for an eco system. >> hopefully they'll get that taken care of quickly or soon. it won't be quickly. before we get to tucker with the weather, tucker, we pulled this especially for you, this is from noaa, this is from space and it's a view of hurricane sandy as it came ashore in southern new jersey. it's time -- it's a time-lapsed issue from the national oceanic and atmospheric administration. it was collected every minute as it made its way from the caribbean sea up towards the east coast. the storm stretched out about 1,000 miles. >> yeah, just amazing. you can still see that this morning on our radar picture. you know, i didn't mention all morning, i meant to, that in baltimore, lowest barometric pressure ever recorded with this storm last night about 6:00 p.m. >> let me tell ya, i know a lot

of people are feeling like, okay, we got through this, which is good, there is a lot of damage out there, perhaps not as much as we may have thought here, but up to the north in new york city -- >> or that we'll find out. >> right. and this storm is going to be studied because it's really without precedent and there's going to be a rot of talk about, you know, does this mean anything for our future, are we going to see more of these kind of hybrid, strange storms going on. so a lot is going to come out of this, right, tucker? >> that's absolutely right, tony. i want to go to the satellite picture real quick. because i only have 30 seconds now to do two minutes of maps. >> it wasn't me this time. >> yes, a perkins rant once again. here's your radar. it's continuing to rain across the area. we're going to little crazy here. rain will be with us much of the day, gusty winds too. let's take a look at the big picture, and this is what tony is talking about, the circulation is just incredible here, all the way from northern new england, down into the carolinas, out west to chicago dealing with wind, rain and

winter in west virginia. that's snow out there in portions of west virginia. and it will continue to be with us today. the storm will lift to the north and eventually things will quiet down here. so the rain will taper off later, winds which are still gusting 30 to 40 will taper off 10 to 20 later tonight. things will get better here as we get into the evening hours. so just hang in there. but, again, still some risk today. we've got problems, or potential problems with tidal flooding later along the potomac and along the chesapeake bay and we still got some flooding issues as well. here's your flood warning in effect until 10:30 this morning. most of the counties in the area under a flood warning as we've got some issues. >> you've done a great job these last several days. >> oh, thank you. >> you can take a little bit of a break for a couple hours. >> he's getting a little testy right now. >> i'll be back in a minute and show you the same map i just showed you. well, a lot of people are wondering if their homeowner's insurance will cover flood damage. we asked an expert if standard

policies cover both flooding and damage from high wind. >> yes, when it comes to wind damage. wind-caused damage is a standard coverage in a homeowner's insurance policy, so you're covered for, as you indicated, roof damage. flood is a different thing because flood is excluded for standard homeowner's insurance policies, but a lot of homeowners in fema-designated flood zones didn't have a choice, they had to buy flood insurance. so they're likely to be covered as well because flood insurance policy covers not only for a flood, but also a storm surge. >> we also want to remind you that refrigerated food can spoil quickly during a power outage. to keep items in the refrigerator as cool as possible, the centers for disease control and prevention suggests packing together dairy items, fish, meat, and also with eggs in a cooler with ice. tony. >> use a food thermometer to check food that's been in a dark refrigerator. anything that's more than 40 degrees fahrenheit, throw it out. for the freezer section, a half

full freezer will keep food cold -- will keep food cold enough for about a day. a full freezer protects frozen foods for about 48 hours. and avoid opening either the refrigerator or the freezer to keep the interiors cold for as long as possible. we want to thank everyone who has sent in their pictures, their videos, the picture behind us was taken in boyds maryland. >> obviously we can't be everywhere to see all the damage, so this is all very helpful to us. dave ross is in the newsroom with a look around the area. hey, dave. >>reporter: tony and allison, you're exactly right, they have really helped us see exactly what everybody else has been seeing wherever they may be as they've woke inup today in the aftermath of sandy. we encourage you to do all you have to do, again, if you have a droid or iphone, you download the app. what you see behind me now is some of the snow totals. you have the rain, of course, is the green. but where you see the blue, you can zero in and actually find out where the heavy snow is as you go up north, you see the

zoom capabilities there. so it really is not just about today's storm. you can -- once you download in app, have at it, everyday, you can check in with fox 5 and figure out what's going on weather wise, not just here, but anywhere that you may want to see with this app. this really is very interactive. the videos and the photos that you guys have been sending in for the last 24 hours, they've been great. we're going to show some of those to you right now. again, you can send us these photos still at my weather photo at g-mail or if you hit the submit tab, you can do it through our fox 5 weather app. these pictures you've seen here, they've been great. we encourage you to continue to do this as the day goes on, wherever you may be. again, it really helps us be your eyes and ears so we can show people exactly when we can't get crews to everywhere. these pictures you see here from sandy ocean pines, they've been very, very helpful. once again, you have a droid, you have an iphone, search d.c. weather and download the fox 5 weather app from that point and

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here's your seven-day forecast. rain continues this afternoon. it will become lighter as the day wears on as will the winds which were still gusty this morning. and then later this afternoon winds 20 to 30. hang in there. halloween looks a little brighter, temperatures in the mid-50s and some sunshine to end the week, so we'll get a chance to dry out and clean up over much of the seven days as it looks nice and quiet. >> lauren demarco called in from ocean city to let us know 17th down to inlet, is that what's closed, katie? yeah. that's still closed, but 62nd to 17th is now reopened. so you can go back and check out your businesses and the like. >> ocean city. >> that's in ocean city, >> that's some good news.